I have a folder with about 2000 jpgs (95% smaller than 1 MB - album art for CDs) residing on a NAS which I access via 1Gbit/s local LAN (just 20 cm and one NW switch away from my PC).
When I open a single file, it gets displayed immediately, but the status bar at the bottom says "no file opened". When I click into the IV window it gets foggy and I get the notorious message "application does not respond, do you want to wait or kill it".
I hear a lot of rumbling on my NAS disk, so it seems that IV tries to read all the contens of the folder before it gets reponsive again.
For a test: After I copied the full folder over to a local SSD, IV was reponsive imeediately after displaying the pic - as expected.
My question is: Is it a bug or a feature that IV tries to read in the full contents of the folder before becoming responsive?
For my purpose, I would not need the full folder contens being read, I only want to display a single file. Furthermore: After waiting long enough for IV to becoming responsive again, I get the very same delay if I try to view the "next" file (via the left/right arrow). So all the read operation on my NAS obviously did not result in a buffering of the contents for the purpose of a faster access when browsing the same folder.
So what good would then be this reading of the remote folder after all?
Thanks for any insights.
Apart form that I am very happy with this very powerful and versatile application! :-)
When I open a single file, it gets displayed immediately, but the status bar at the bottom says "no file opened". When I click into the IV window it gets foggy and I get the notorious message "application does not respond, do you want to wait or kill it".
I hear a lot of rumbling on my NAS disk, so it seems that IV tries to read all the contens of the folder before it gets reponsive again.
For a test: After I copied the full folder over to a local SSD, IV was reponsive imeediately after displaying the pic - as expected.
My question is: Is it a bug or a feature that IV tries to read in the full contents of the folder before becoming responsive?
For my purpose, I would not need the full folder contens being read, I only want to display a single file. Furthermore: After waiting long enough for IV to becoming responsive again, I get the very same delay if I try to view the "next" file (via the left/right arrow). So all the read operation on my NAS obviously did not result in a buffering of the contents for the purpose of a faster access when browsing the same folder.
So what good would then be this reading of the remote folder after all?
Thanks for any insights.
Apart form that I am very happy with this very powerful and versatile application! :-)
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